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August 2015

  • Matriculation celebration

    Since the late 1990s, the Graduate School has welcomed new students with a matriculation ceremony. After this year’s ceremony yesterday... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | August 28 2015 07:48am

  • Moving in again

    Tomorrow is move-in day for freshmen in Yale College, accompanied by traffic snarls, misty-eyed parents, and bands of eager students to help the... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | August 27 2015 09:13am

  • Sage Boy’s new look for fall

    For as long as anyone can remember, foresty and environmental studies students have scaled the wall of Sage Hall on Prospect Street to dress the... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | August 26 2015 08:51am

  • Board of education

    Look what we found while cleaning the office. From 1991, it’s Yaleopoly, a time capsule of sorts with shout-outs to Demery’s, the Yale... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | August 25 2015 09:15am

  • The most wonderful time of the year

    With preorientation programs under way and freshman counselors reporting for duty, the campus is beginning to stir again. We’re always happy... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | August 24 2015 09:31am

  • A cautionary tale

    New students at the Law School arrive for orientation next week. Let’s hope they all avoid the fate of this wretched would-be lawyer, depicted... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | August 21 2015 09:34am

  • Cold comfort

    There’s just a week to go before students come back for the fall, but it sure feels like summer today. It also feels like ice cream:... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | August 20 2015 10:55am

  • “Thy light and truth shall set me free”

    When you roam the campus looking for a new picture every day, your eye might fall on an inscription you’d never really processed before, like... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | August 19 2015 08:28am

  • Seems like old times

    The School of Management’s new modern home is now adorned with a clock from the old days—1998, to be specific. This Victorian-style... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | August 18 2015 09:50am

  • Don’t call him “master”

    The sign on the door says “Pierson College Master’s House,” but the person who currently holds that title would rather you call... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | August 17 2015 08:38am

  • Silliman at 75

    Happy diamond anniversary to Silliman College, which opened 75 years ago this fall. Among other things, Yale’s tenth and (for now) largest... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | August 14 2015 08:59am

  • Books and beans

    Hands up if you ever sipped or browsed at Atticus Bookstore and Café, a tenant of the Yale Center for British Art since 1976. Back in our... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | August 12 2015 10:00am

  • Throwback Thursday: victory dogs

    Seventy years ago tomorrow, Japan announced its surrender in World War II, and, as documented in our October 1945 issue, the campus celebrated:... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | August 13 2015 08:45am

  • On the rise

    The structure of Yale’s new residential colleges is starting to emerge from the ground, as seen here from the third floor of Osborn Memorial... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | August 11 2015 10:06am

  • Am I blue?

    Just what kind of blue is Yale blue? The discrepancy in these two posters outside Memorial Hall is due to fading—the one on the left is closer... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | August 10 2015 09:22am

  • Cover up

    As part of the Beinecke Library’s year-long renovation project, the library’s sunken courtyard is getting a temporary roof. The... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | August 7 2015 08:21am

  • Throwback Thursday: The end

    Ten years ago this summer, the York Square Cinema went dark after 35 years on Broadway in New Haven. The last feature was a double bill of The... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | August 6 2015 08:41am

  • Olympian heights

    Most of the sculpture niches built into Yale’s gothic architecture are empty, but the position above the entrance to Payne Whitney Gymnasium... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | August 5 2015 11:09am

  • Think globally

    We got a nice view of the Davenport courtyard from the window below its York Street cupola yesterday. Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | August 4 2015 10:26am